Monday, January 21, 2013

Ga. man restores MLK Bible for Obama inauguration

ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Atlanta man has restored a Bible
that belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. so that it can be used in
President Barack Obama's inauguration. The Marietta Daily Journal
reports (http://bit.ly/XhH6Qb) that Gordon Ponsford of Acworth
contracted with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social
Change to prepare the Bible for Obama's inauguration ceremony on Monday.Ponsford said the work involved reattaching leather to the slain civil rights leader's traveling Bible.Ponsford's assistant, Julie Julian of Wildwood, compared the word to taking a raggedy doll and making it look new again.Information from: Marietta Daily Journal, http://mdjonline.com/

I'm in a sad quandary with the story. Need to change the final section completely. But that section as currently constituted, includes a scene I really like. The change will eliminate the scene. Oh well, I can salvage the scene and put it away in a folder. Maybe it will be right for some other story sometime.

Ahhh, such a wonderful day. I didn't expect to be so moved by the Inauguration this time. Yet so many aspects of the day surpassed my expectations. The President's speech said so much that my dried out political heart needed the water of. I especially appreciated his remark about name calling not being reasoned debate. Mostly I have watched CSPAN, but I noted that ABC said that his longest paragraph was about Global Warming and that he said the word "together" 7 times. :-) Did you notice that the last word of the poem that followed was "together"? Best of all, toward the end of the President's speech he said that We (citizens) have the Power?! ;-) ABC also said that about 600,000 were expected on the Mall and it appears that over a million came again, like last time! wOOt!!

Oh, BTW listener, I forgot: The dial on the fire extinguisher? My answer to the question was to call the fire department. But of course VT Grand probably wouldn't recognize a rotary phone as a phone. Her answer is a good one, and also impresses me, since clocks with dials aren't so common anymore either. Does she know how to tell time on an analogue clock? Are children taught to do that anymore?

She being only 5 years old, I doubt she knows how to tell time yet, but she does recognise analog clocks. Children are not taught to read them anymore. I am sure of this because we only have an analog clock at the Library and when middle schoolers need to sign in for a computer they often need to ask us what time it is (while looking at the clock!). Perhaps schools will again begin to teach that, just as some have begun to teach cursive handwriting again.

Today I bought the fabric for the baby quilt I am going to make for our next Grand! It was a big decision as it's quite a departure from anything I've tried before! I decided to "think like a baby." Babies love contrast! So this quilt will be made of mostly black and white calico patterns sewn into a crazy quilt, except that there is one SOLID bright colour patch for each of the colours of the rainbow. The solid brights will each be in a particular shape that little ones like: Cat, bird, star, moon, butterfly, flower and so on...all scattered among the black and whites in the crazy quilt fashion. Around that center will be a border of yellow with scattered (not uniform) white polka dots. Around that will be a wider border of black and white gingham. The back will be the yellow with white polka dots fabric, which people can sign at the baby shower, before the quilt is put together. On the crazy quilt side, I will make crazy quilt stitches around the solid bright shapes. If there's lots of time after that I could do all the seams (black and white too). We'll see.

This is so different than what I usually do...it's usually a scene of some kind. But I'm excited about trying the crazy quilt style!! :-D

Mind you, all seams, etc., will be sewn by hand, so this will take awhile!

Regarding the baby quilt, I meant to add that I chose these colours partly because I know that Son and DIL are planning rainbow brights for the baby's room, and partly because they won't know the gender of the baby until birth.